Duck, Duck, Snooze?

This Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) fired another air traffic controller for catching some Z's on the job. It happened around midnight at the Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center. One of the other controllers noticed his sleeping colleague and reported the incident to the manager. While no aircraft calls were missed, this is the seventh time this year that an air traffic controller has been caught sleeping on the job, all of which happened during midnight shifts. The other similarity between the incidents is that all of the controllers  went to sleep deliberately. Controllers have been caught napping in Washington D.C., Knoxville, Seattle, Reno two cases in Lubbock, and now Miami. The FAA believes that fatigue and scheduling have played major roles in the recent outburst of job snoozers. FAA Administrator, Randy Babbitt and head of controller's union, Paul Rinaldi will begin a tour of many major air traffic control facilities. Their first stop will be at an Atlanta regional radar facility. 
"We are taking swift action to ensure the safety of our aviation system," said Ray LaHood, transportation secretary. "There is no excuse for air traffic controllers to be sleeping on the job. We will do everything we can to put an end to this."
I believe that making SCHEDULED visits to SOME major air traffic control facilities will not have any effect on this issue. That's like trying to throw a surprise birthday party for a psychic. He's going to act surprised, but he knew it before he even walked into the room. Visits shouldn't even matter in the first place. What are visits going to do, even if they are by surprise? Assuming you catch another guy sleeping on the job, you fire him, and don't teach anybody a lesson. I believe that they should shorten the hours of these workers or have the managers do consistent report-ins to ensure that his control guys aren't sleeping. This is a situation that should probably be handled. I mean after all, these are the guys that pilots count on to let them know if they're going to hit another plan or not.